08-08-2011, 05:53 PM
I have one of Laycock's books, so I might have read ideas like that there.
It was a thow away line, by the way! I don't consider it plausible that if you 'cut out' the Romans from the timeline that 42 AD and 411AD would join together seamlessly...
But I still consider the iron-rural communities the de rigeur heart of Britain, throughout and beyond the Roman military invasion, with cities dying on the vine within a generation.
It was a thow away line, by the way! I don't consider it plausible that if you 'cut out' the Romans from the timeline that 42 AD and 411AD would join together seamlessly...
But I still consider the iron-rural communities the de rigeur heart of Britain, throughout and beyond the Roman military invasion, with cities dying on the vine within a generation.
Paul Elliott
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
